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Commonplace Books: A 5-Minute Introduction

Dawn Kofie · November 20, 2016 · Leave a Comment

Commonplace Books: A 5-Minute Introduction

So what is a commonplace book? Well, it’s kind of like the bullet journal’s much less hyped distant cousin. It’s not a productivity tool, more of a writing-based scrapbook. A place to collect the wit and wisdom that you’d usually stumble across and think, ‘that’s great, I must make a note of that’ only to […]

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